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There is a LOT of stuff happening in the background that we just aren't privy to the info yet. We are just on a need to know basis and we don't need to know, yet.
 
Understood, but I specifically mentioned losing a job, retirement (pension) or freedom that's why I was confused.
 
Well there is the possibility people have been hauled off to jail, property confiscated in the background. We know that people have been losing jobs as a fact. But, that's not gonna cut it of course.
 
2 judges being arrested this week give me hope that perhaps there is something happening that we aren't aware of. Someone may have finally had a chat with Bondi and told her to stop announcing that arrests were coming and alerting the perps beforehand.
 
What I'm sensing, is that the problem is an unbelievable scope. It seems like the WHOLE of the top ten-percent, are in on it, actively. Private CEOs and Directors, on NGO boards sucking up public money to create national chaos.

Can this be stopped, short of Martial Law and mass executions?

I doubt it. Too many are in denial. And Soros, or his idiot son, now, owns a majority of Fuddrel kangaroos.

The only hope I see - and it's not much of a hope - is that once this madness is exposed - BUT UNABLE TO BE STOPPED - the dollar collapses.
 

DOGE Layoffs and the Counterintelligence Threats They Pose | SpyCast​

Apr 15, 2025 SpyCast

Government employees were dismissed with startling swiftness amid the Trump Administration's relentless pursuit to pare down the federal workforce. The sheer number of fired personnel and how US officials let them go have led to concerns that disillusioned former employees may share what they know with foreign intelligence services, jeopardizing the very security they once sought to protect. Bill Evanina, former Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center, discusses this fear and how foreign adversaries may be exploiting the moment.


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About time! FAFO!



BREAKING: “Bloodbath” at DOJ Civil Rights Division as Harmeet Dhillon cleans house — NBC News

-Career officials are melting down.

The Trump administration has forced out a majority of career managers and implemented new priorities.

-More than a dozen senior lawyers have been reassigned.

-Some have resigned in frustration after being moved to “less desirable roles unrelated to their expertise.”

-The division is now charged with pursuing priorities laid out in a series of Trump’s executive orders, including “Keeping Men out of Women's Sports” and “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.”

-"These documents appear to have been created in a vacuum completely divorced from reality," a former official whined. “This is a 180 shift from the division’s traditional mission.”

-Many section chiefs have been transferred to roles unrelated to their legal backgrounds, including in the complaint adjudication office and the office that handles public records requests. 😂

-“I was there almost 18 years, and what’s happening now is basically the opposite of what we’ve been doing,” whined one veteran lawyer who recently left the department.

-“They are withdrawing everything we’ve done and taking the opposite side on voting rights, for example,” whined a recently departed Civil Division lawyer.

-Dhillon’s memo outlines new priorities, including “Defending Women From Gender Ideology Extremism,” “Restoring Merit Based Opportunity” and “Designating English as the Official Language of the United States.”

-The “Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias” task force will be a focus. “The Biden administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses,” Pam Bondi said at a meeting of the new task force.
 
searcher said:
The sheer number of fired personnel and how US officials let them go have led to concerns that disillusioned former employees may share what they know with foreign intelligence services, jeopardizing the very security they once sought to protect.
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That would be a violation of Federal law and will have severe consequences... they already know this and if they do disclose, they're not patriotic Americans.
 
searcher said:
DOGE Layoffs and the Counterintelligence Threats They Pose | SpyCast
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Jee if she didn't spoon feed him all the talking points as if it was rehearsed already!

I wonder if Hillary's server ever came up in this 'discussion'?? Listened to 8 mins of it before gagging on a spoon.
 
"-The division is now charged with pursuing priorities laid out in a series of Trump’s executive orders, including “Keeping Men out of Women's Sports” and “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling.”

“This is a 180 shift from the division’s traditional mission.”

Traditional mission? I thought our nation's tradition was conservative Christian values that our nation was founded on.

They have been doing this stupid ass CRT and DEI shit for only about the last 10 or 15 years or so. How in the hell does this dip-shit have the idea that those things are tradition? What in the hell does he mean tradition?

If I had to guess I'd say maybe he's a younger attorney grew up with that garbage and has never known any different?
 
Fortune

DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year alone​

  • DOGE claims to have saved the government $150 million in waste, fraud, and abuse, but some federal workforce and policy experts believe Elon Musk’s cost-cutting efforts have proven expensive to taxpayers. The chaos of personnel changes have tanked productivity, one expert claims, costing the government billions in wasted payroll. Fired IRS employees are no longer able to carry out audits to bring in key revenue, another argued.
As Elon Musk prepares to step back from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his goal to rout out government waste, fraud, and abuse may have fallen short. Some experts warn his efforts may actually be costing the government billions in lost labor and revenue.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...S&cvid=0553aecb2ede4ff38c54600ff552baa1&ei=20
 
kevin55 said:
Whenever I see MSN, I automatically assume it's fake news, put out there to advance their agenda.
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You can ALWAYS tell when they couch it in terms such as "may", or "could" etc. that they're blowing smoke...

DOGE’s mass federal workforce cuts may cost taxpayers​

i.e., they're making shit up....
 
Goldhedge said:
That would be a violation of Federal law and will have severe consequences... they already know this and if they do disclose, they're not patriotic Americans.
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Of course they're not.

They were hired into a sprawling Deep State, created by Leftists...staffed with a Kenyan pretender to the office or an outright fraud of a pResident, installed by the Left and by Globalists.

They were there TO destroy the country. To now do it by spilling their guts on whatever classified info they know, is just doing more of what they always have done.
 


NEW: Over a dozen active duty service members were working as armed security or patrons in the Colorado raid that busted 100+ illegal aliens, according to the DEA.

Law enforcement says drug trafficking & prost*tution were taking place inside the illegal nightclub.

The service members were allegedly working security for the club where drug trafficking and prost*tution were taking place.

"What was happening inside was significant drug trafficking, prost*tution, crimes of violence."

"We seized the number of guns in there. We had active duty service members who were running security at the club and involved in some of these crimes."
 
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Unfortunately I dont even blame her. Blame the universities. They teach this crap and shut down anyone who isn't on board with their woke agenda when in fact it should be just the opposite. If you have a woke mentality you could never be able to earn a degree. In short the radical are being produced in our universities. We can attempt to shut them down once they graduate but it's a lot easier for universities to just lose accreditation. Then we stop producing the whack jobs.
 
Universities, originally at their core, were meant to be hubs of debate. A place where new ways of thinking and different ideas would be introduced to freshman and discussion would be bounced off one another. One could appreciate the fresh point of view or reject it.

There was the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake.

It always bugs me when I see "highly educated" (PHD from Oxford) who can't form their own opinion and simply accept the narrative they've been presented and parrot things they've been spoon fed by the media.
When she said "this administration which is hellbent on bringing us into fascism" it was like nails on a chalkboard.
 
How can shrinking the size of government be fascist? It's the opposite.
 
nickndfl said:
How can shrinking the size of government be fascist? It's the opposite.
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They just throw emotive labels at it.

MOST people cannot define "fascist." This was even true during the immediate postwar era - I read some interesting fiction writers who illustrated that, probably from personal experience. Your boss disciplines you for being five minutes late, he's a Fascist. Call him that, and get fired. Neither party even really understood what Fascism was.

The Party of Low Brows, keeps the tradition of ignorami and ignorance alive, just this way.
 
The lines are blurred so much so that it's difficult keeping it all together...





🏛️ USGLC Recruited Hunter Biden... before Burisma 🏛️

Credit to
@MarcoPolo501c3
for assistance with emails.

In 2012, two years before Hunter Biden joined Burisma, Liz Schrayer, CEO of the Gates/Soros-backed US Global Leadership Corporation (USGLC), personally recruited him to their board.

❓If not for influence peddling, why was the sitting Vice President's son such a priority?

Here’s the timeline:

👉 June 25, 2012: Schrayer invites Hunter to be a special guest at a USGLC gala honoring Senators Lindsey Graham and Patrick Leahy (with Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell in attendance).

👉 July 17, 2012: Hunter attends the event.

👉 July 26, 2012: Schrayer schedules a call with Hunter to discuss a "C-3 Board" position.

👉 August 21, 2012: Schrayer sends a formal letter: Hunter is unanimously nominated to the board, despite USGLC typically filling seats with CEOs and former senior officials.

Again, all of this happened before Hunter Biden joined Burisma in 2014.

📌 It looks like strategic access to influence peddling while his father, the Vice President, held office.
 
^^^^^

There appears NO DEPTH to the amount of Dumbo cracks' corruption.

Plan your actions, and your demands, accordingly. I don't think anything short of mass executions, as in a forest of the impaled, can even begin to solve it...but, you do you. I'm old and weak and battles have to be fought by younger leaders.
 
Seems like a good place to post this.

The Endlessness of a Temporary Tax
by Jeff Thomas

Governments regularly claim that they favour tax reform. When this claim has been repeated so many times that virtually no one believes them anymore, they announce a tax reform, to show that they really mean it. They then reshuffle the existing taxes to give the appearance that taxation will actually be lowered.

When it becomes apparent that the reform is a sham, they often pull a rabbit out of a hat in the form of a "temporary" tax, that’s pre-legislated to end sometime in the future.

Sounds promising.

So, let’s have a look at one such temporary tax and see how things worked out.

The US government introduced the War Revenue Act of 1898—a tax on telephone use—under the claim that it was necessary to pay for the Spanish American War.

In what way does telephone use pertain to a government invading another country? Well, actually, one has nothing to do with the other. But, let’s leave that discussion for another day and see how this temporary tax played out.

The Act was repealed in 1902 but was reinstated, this time as the Emergency Internal Revenue Tax Act of 1914. The justification then given was that another war was on the way and increased taxation to pay for it couldn’t begin too soon. Telephone users needed to cough up.

It was decided by both parties to increase the tax on telephones and the War Revenue Act of 1917 was created. It hadn’t passed the debate stage until the war was over, but they decided that they’d implement it anyway, as the work had already been done. In the bargain, they introduced not only increased rates, but graduated rates.

This act was also repealed, in 1924, but was reinstated with the Revenue Act of 1932. Since that date, it has been reauthorised 29 times.

In 1941, an increase was put in place to pay for (you guessed it) another war—World War II. This was increased again in 1943, but people complained and the new law contained a provision that the increased rates would end six months after "the date of termination of hostilities in the present war." However, the Excise Tax Act of 1947 was passed to assure that the tax would continue indefinitely.

Over the subsequent years, periodic changes were made. Although the rates went up and down like a bride’s nightie, most, not surprisingly, were upward.

As further (undeclared) wars came and went, taxation on telephone calls repeatedly needed to be increased and, regardless of the party in power, increases continued.

At long last, on 14 September, 2000, the House of Representatives took up legislation which included the repeal of the telephone excise tax. This measure passed both houses, but the fix was in. President Clinton vetoed the repeal. (The legislative branch and the executive branch have to take turns playing the bad cop, but the outcome is the same: increased taxation.)

Then, in 2006, a case was made (in the words of the Treasury Secretary), to amend the Internal Revenue Code "of an outdated, antiquated tax that has survived a century beyond its original purpose, and by now should have been ancient history."

Finally, American citizens could wash their hands of a one-hundred-year theft of their earnings that, even at the start, was based upon a ludicrous concept.

Unfortunately… it didn’t happen.

The repeal was never enacted and Americans continue to pay for the Spanish American War today.

So, what’s the takeaway here?

Well, first off, this little history serves as a reminder that there’s nothing so permanent as a temporary government measure.

Second, although not a month goes by without one politician or another, from one party or the other, rising up in righteous indignation that a new tax or an expanded tax is absolutely necessary to continue the welfare of the American people, there is, in truth, no sincerity in their claim. They simply want more money.

Third, no amount of money is ever enough. Even if Washington, D.C., is the only part of the US that is enjoying prosperity, even if no congressman leaves office without more zeroes behind his net worth than when he went in, virtually every legislator will vote for increases in taxation.

And, fourth, there’s no such thing as tax reform. From time to time, legislators will need to trot out the idea of tax reform, and be seen to be arguing over the details, but will ultimately always do the same: the deck will be reshuffled, but somehow, taxes will rise once again.

But the overall lesson to be learned is that Government is, and has always been, a shell game. Its purpose is not to serve the electorate; it is to separate them from the fruits of their labours.

Full stop.

As former US Chief Justice John Marshall stated,

The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

More recently, Ron Holland offered the following:

Since the beginning of recorded history, the business of government has been wealth confiscation.

However, both these individuals were conservatives, and it would only be fair to ask for commentary from the liberal side. One such liberal political leader is none other than Vladimir Lenin, who stated,

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Of course, the reader may wish to consider relocating to a jurisdiction where the taxation is far lower, but if he chooses to remain in the US, EU, Canada, or other jurisdiction where the tax level is already oppressive, his plans should include temporary taxes that are unlikely to end in his lifetime.
 
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